47-year-old Lauren Perdriau Ward was killed by a big rig truck while riding her bicycle in Silicon Valley. The accident occurred on Alpine Road near the I-280 overpass. Investigators say it looks like the accident occurred on the left hand side of the truck. The bicycle and the truck were both traveling westbound, and police…
An eleven-year-old Orange County boy was riding his bike to school when he was hit by a van and hospitalized with head injuries. The 1970 Volkswagen van struck him around 8:30 a.m. near Brookdale Lane and Sunridge Drive in Huntington Beach, California. The accident occurred just blocks from Isaac Sowers Middle School in a residential…
James Laing, 46, was killed by a hit and run driver around 3:45 pm on a Saturday afternoon while bicycling on Augora Road in Augora Hills, California. Laing, a resident of West Hills, was traveling eastbound in the bike lane, just east of Liberty Canyon Road when a car, also eastbound, hit Laing on his…
Whether you call it “hit and run” or “leaving the scene of an accident” the result is the same; someone is seriously injured, brain damaged, paralyzed, or killed in an accident, and the responsible party takes off without even stopping to see if the victim needs help. For some reason this offence is growing in…
According to public records compiled by auto insurance companies, over forty percent of all car crashes in the United States occur at intersections. The majority (if not all) of these intersections are equipped with traffic signals or stop signs, which means the cause of the accidents is drivers and pedestrians not paying attention when approaching…
Dan Crain of Irvine, California didn’t appear to be in critical condition after he was struck by a car in Orange County on Newport Coast Drive. Nevertheless, the sixty-five year old cyclist died in the hospital from his injuries a week later. Crain was travelling southbound on Newport Coast Drive when he was hit by…
Forty-nine year old Laura Casey was riding her bike along a Richmond, California road when she was struck by a car and knocked to the ground. As the car that hit her drove off, Casey started screaming for help, but before witnesses could reach her she was struck by another car that got caught on…
Michael William Nine of Santa Ana, California was heading north on Spyglass Hill Road near Harbor Ridge Drive on his bicycle when he collided with a truck driven by Jose Luis Huerta Mundo. Nine was riding with a large group of cyclists at the time of the accident. One of the other cyclists reported that…
An unidentified cyclist was struck and critically injured in a hit and run accident in Orange County, California. The fifty-three year old man was apparently going north on Magnolia Street in Garden Grove, California, when he was struck by a vehicle headed east on Chapman Avenue. The time of the accident is assumed to be…
According to the Orange County Register, in a single day this year three pedestrians were killed and one cyclist was critically wounded in a series of unrelated accidents on Orange County, California roads. Two of the three fatal accidents occurred less than three miles apart from each other, along a stretch of the Pacific Coast…
